The abalone shell before excavation from the 100,000 year old, Middle Stone Age-levels at the Blombos Cave in South Africa. Photo by Science/AAAS. Researchers have unearthed two abalone shells ...

The creature looked like a simple gnarled stone — until it danced. ... Thirty years ago, one-fifth of abalone were small. Today only 2 percent are. Average abalone shell sizes have grown larger.

A coating of bright red powder on the insides of a pair of 100,000-year-old abalone shells is evidence of the oldest known art workshop, a new study says. The powder was found inside two shells in ...

A quarter-pound abalone (shell and meat) is about 3 inches across the widest part of the shell. He feeds the abalone wild kelp that he harvests and trucks up from Monterey Bay.

Two abalone shells were found with ochre and mineral residue in them, along with tools resembling mortars and pestles made of stone and bone from a variety of animals.

Art thieves who broke into a Monterey peninsula museum made off with a collection of 48 irreplaceable abalone scrimshaw carvings, one of California's most unusual and rare historical artifacts.

The kit includes two abalone shells used to mix ochre powder, seal fat, charcoal and other liquids. One shell even held a brush with paint still visible on the tip after 100,000 years.

There’s nothing especially remarkable about archaeologists studying stone tools and shell middens—unless they weren’t made by humans. A new study suggests that sea otters create a distinct ...

Abalone is an umbrella term for a group of marine snails, only they don’t look like your typical snail because they have a flattened spiral shell. Their other common name is pāua, and they can ...